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The Medicare Part B Ambulance Fee Schedule (AFS) is a national fee schedule for ambulance services: Find Public Use Files (PUFs) with payment amounts for each calendar year and ZIP Code Geographic Designations Files; Learn about the Medicare Ground Ambulance Data Collection System (GADCS) Read Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
All official fee schedule files that are used to process Medicare claims are maintained by the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and could vary slightly from the amounts referenced in these files. Expand a menu to view information about the Ambulance Fee Schedule PUFs:
The fee schedule applies to all ambulance services, including volunteer, municipal, private, independent, and institutional providers, hospitals, critical access hospitals (except when it is the only ambulance service within 35 miles), and skilled nursing facilities.
Medicare payment for ambulance services is based on the lesser of the actual charge or the applicable fee schedule amount. The fee schedule payment for ambulance services equals a base rate for the level of service plus payment for mileage and applicable adjustment factors.
All official fee schedule files that are used to process Medicare claims are maintained by the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) and could vary slightly from the amounts referenced in these files. Expand a menu to view information about the Ambulance Fee Schedule PUFs:
The fee schedule applies to all ambulance services provided by: Volunteer, municipal, private, and independent ambulance suppliers; Institutional providers, including hospitals and skilled nursing facilities; Critical access hospitals, except when they’re the only ambulance service within 35 miles; Ambulance providers and suppliers must:
The fee schedule applies to all ambulance services, including volunteer, municipal, private, independent, and institutional providers, hospitals, critical access hospitals (except when it is the only ambulance service within 35 miles), and skilled nursing facilities.
Subpart H—Fee Schedule for Ambulance Services [67 FR 9132, Feb. 27, 2002] § 414.601 Purpose. This subpart implements section 1834(l) of the Act by establishing a fee schedule for the payment of ambulance services. Section 1834(l) of the Act re-quires that, except for services fur-nished by certain critical access hos-
Ambulance-Specific Manuals. Medicare Benefit Policy Manual - Pub. 100-02, Chapter 10 - Ambulance Services (PDF) Medicare Claims Processing Manual - Pub. 100-04, Chapter 15 - Ambulance (PDF) National Coverage Determinations (NCD) Manual - Pub. 100-03; View other CMS manuals and transmittals. View archive & legacy files.
The ambulance company believes that Medicare may not pay for your specific ambulance service. You may now be affected by a Medicare demonstration program if: You get scheduled, non-emergency ambulance transportation for 3 or more round trips in a 10-day period or at least once a week for 3 weeks or more